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When he was a little boy, Christopher Cockerell once noticed his mother turning the wheel of her sewing machine with her hand. “Won’t it work quickly if a machine 1. (turn) the wheel for you?” he asked. “I suppose it will.” said his mother, without paying any attention to him. Christopher knew she always had a lot of work and that she was 2. stubborn that he could hardly do anything to change 3. mind. But he wanted to help. In his bedroom there was a toy steam engine 4. (buy) by his father as a gift to him. “I will make better use of it,” little Christopher said to himself. So, when his mother was not using her sewing machine, he decided to fix the toy steam engine onto it. When he finished 5.(do) it, he was quite pleased, thinking his mother would like it. “Very clever,” his mother said when she saw it. But then she sat down and went on turning the wheel 6. hand. “I 7. (work) like this for too many years,” she explained. Christopher felt very 8. (disappoint). He couldn’t understand his mother’s 9. (behave).
This teaches Christopher a lesson that anyone 10. tries to improve anything has to learn: many people don’t like new ideas.
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When Jack was a small boy, he was once asked to give a speech about “A Big Challenge(挑战) in My Life”. To talk before the whole class, he was __1.__ (terrible) shy as soon as he thought of so many eyes __2.___(stare) at him. He had no other___3.__ (choose), though. First Jack was to draft(打草稿) the speech, which was just a piece of cake for him because he was a good writer, But the hard part _4.___ (lie) in his oral presentation(展示), for it was not allowed to read from the paper. He had to give the speech __5.__ his memory and in front of such a big audience(观众)!
A real trial(考验) began when Jack stood on the platform with his legs __6.__(tremble颤抖) and his mind blank(空白). How much time had passed by, he didn’t know. His listeners were still waiting patiently and without any signs of laughing. Gradually he found _7.__ (him) back, giving out his speech without much difficulty. After what seemed to be a hundred years, he found the audience applauding. He made___8.__! From then on, his fear of talking before an audience disappeared. Actually with his confidence built up, Jack now turns out to be a great speaker. As we know, the greater difficulty we meet on our way to __9.__(succeed), the ___10.____likely we will be to achieve(实现) our goals.